Morand, Lucien Combelle and André Castelot, who was in charge of the theatre reviews. It was closely associated with the Groupe Collaboration, an initiative established by Châteaubriand in September 1940. La Gerbe was subsidized, and in some sense created, by the German embassy, with Châteaubriant serving as a front for the ambassador Otto Abetz. As the only French newspaper created by the German occupants, it was meant to replace Candide and Gringoire. Some of the newspaper's last editorials referred to the Allied bombings as terrorism. After the Liberation of Paris the police searched the offices of La Gerbe in Rue Chauchat, which were then taken over by a newspaper of the French Resistance. See also Vichy France Footnotes References . . . . . 1940 establishments in France 1944 disestablishments in France Defunct newspapers published in France Defunct weekly newspapers Newspapers published in Paris Newspapers established in 1940 Publications disestablished in 1944 Newspapers of the Vichy regime